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Saturday, September 19, 1970
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The Headlines
Jordan Suspends Attacks After 2d Day of Fighting
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Diana Ross
#1 at the box office
MASH
$463,100
The must-have
Lite-Brite
On This Day
Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
Wikipedia →Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- William Golding (1911)
- Jeremy Irons (1948)
- Henry III of France (1551)
- Masatoshi Koshiba (1926)
- Sunita Williams (1965)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Floppy Disk, Digital Watch & Boeing 747 (Service).
Style of 1970
Silhouette: Long and lean
Material: Polyester and corduroy
- Maxi dresses
- Platform shoes
- Leisure suits
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
20,349 days ago
(55 years, 274 days)